The Art Lover
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À propos du tableau
An admirer of 19th-century French artist Honoré Daumier’s social caricatures, Mervin Jules satirizes the myopic gaze of a bourgeois connoisseur scrutinizing a painting. The painting-within-a-painting depicts workers demonstrating against the backdrop of a smoke-filled industrial landscape. The subject memorializes the infamous 1937 Little Steel strike, during which police fired on unarmed unionized steelworkers and their sympathizers protesting low wages and poor working conditions. Jules executed this painting during a formative time when he was studying with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League and employed by the silkscreen unit of the Works Progress Administration.
Musées d'Art de Harvard
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- 2005.114
Au catalogue
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- Musées d'Art de Harvard
- Image : Musées d'Art de Harvard — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
